Welcome to the Agora, portokalos ! I must confess, even though doing so gives rise to a certain degree of *glukonostimalgia, that the word «*nostos» doesn't remind me of very much at all. Where did you happen upon it ?...

portokalos wrote:Thanks, I’m happy to be here.The word is difficult. Full of negative sentiments. Especially to the people who live out of their country. I just with apo wanted to give a more optimistic note to that word. To remain their recollections sweet and the pain to be raised

"What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov

So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Odysseus, and he, though he was longing for his return [nostos] to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, ...

i'm pretty sure it's bad andy, but who can be sure! Actually I was christened badandy after the Domino's Pizza mascot, and I needed an on-air disc jockey name. I'm not really that bad (except at Portuguese), but the name stuck.